National Stamping Month - Hello Life

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring Hello Life Stamp sets the promotional stamps for national stamping month, 3 sets of C sized stamps to reflect the needs of each time of paper crafter. 

 If you have come here from Krista Hershberger's Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog:  

This month we have 40 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the Hello Life Stamp sets and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

I used a combination of stamps from all three sets to make these cards.

This Card features the new urban paper pack and some saffron card stock.  I stamped the sentiment in pigment ink to make it pop.  I used the ink blob stamp set from the new annual inspirations to add some detail to the Blue B&T paper, I stamped both with black and saffron pigment ink.  This card is for my sons 8th birthday.

This card I heat embossed the sentiment "Oh Hey" then stamped the flag with our new Eggplant exclusive ink and the thanks sentiment in Black exclusive ink. I used our dimensional tape to make the sentiment stand out.   The paper seen here is a mix of the old and the new paper fundamentals.

Here are a few of the products I used,  you can find all the products used on my shopping site createbythelake.ctmh.com

Ranger™ Silver Super Fine Embossing Powder

Enchanted fundamentals

CC1040

 CC1041

CC1042

Now "Hop" on over to Lisa Plummer's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the Hello Life Stamp sets are only available until September 30th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant Createbythelake.ctmh.com to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

#CTMHNevermore

#CTMHNevermore

This month Close to My Heart is featuring the New Halloween themed paper pack Nevermore.

I find more ideas using this paper-pack use the #CTMHnevermore to search for ideas on instagram, facebook and pinterest.

Here is what I came up with 

 I used some old black fundamentals and some of the new eggplant fundamentals to complement the colours in the paper pack.  The title is from the CTMH Artbooking cricut cartridge. I also love the new Steampunk Halloween stamp.  I had used the moon and witch complement stickers on another project so on this project I used the scraps and I sponged them on to my project with our sponge dubbers.  I love them because they fit on your finger and are small and easy to store.

Here is the shopping list so you can recreate this project. You can get these products and many other new products on my shopping site Createbythelake.ctmh.com

Nevermore Complements

Item Number: X7198C

Paper Fundamentals Enchantment

Item Number: Z3126

Steampunk Scoundrels

Item Number: B1503

Cricut® Artbooking Collection

Item Number: Z3169

 Nevermore Paper Packet

Item Number: X7198B

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#CTMHZOE

Over the next several months Close to My Heart will be featuring a new paper pack with a hash-tag so you can easily search for ideas using that paper pack.

This months paper pack is Zoe  created this two page layout featuring the Zoe paper pack and my son and his aunty at the beach.  I used a pattern form one of our idea books.  I just love how they give you the recipe to make a page.  Just like in back substitutions can be made in both the measurements or the ingredients.  

Thanks for stopping by and keep and eye out for #CTMHZoe through the end of the Month and #CTMHNevermore starting September 1st.

august team Brae'er blog hop

Welcome to our August Team Braer Blog Hop that focuses on the new product released for August! To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today,kindly contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we really love feedback from our blog viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!

If you have come from Chris's Creative Life  you are in the right spot

I created this awesome Beer cake for this Blog Hop with the help of my best friend for her Husbands 30th Birthday.  What 30 year old man would't love this!

I Used our new artistry Cricut cartridge for all of the cuts.  cut out of black and pear card-stock.  

this cartridge is so versatile and can be used on any of the cricut machines easily with lots of small cuts even those with the original cricut can enjoy this cartridge. 

Chris is so excited after a day of golf to receive this birthday surprise.

products used all are available on my shopping site at Createbythelake.ctmh.com

artistry cricut bundle

12" X 12" Black Cardstock

1386 $15.95

12" X 12" Pear Cardstock

X5764 $15.95

Bonding Memories™ Glue Pen

Z553 $4.95

Next Stop is Tamara Lisowski

Thanks for Hopping By!

Mini Album

This month Close to My Heart Released the Zoe Paper Pack early ahead of the rest of their amazing new product coming out September 1st.

This paper pack is so versatile and can be used for so many different projects and photos.  From Summer vacations, to new babies, or even your Disney trip photos.

I created this mini album inspired by Bren Yule, as an activity for my home gatherings.

If you would like the instructions just make a purchase including the new Zoe paper pack on my website Createbythelake.ctmh.com or host a home gathering and I will email the instructions to you.

Here are a few of the Products I used to make this

Beach Gear

$7.75 A1164

Hello Summer

$15.25 C1595

Zoe Paper Packet

X7197B $11.75

Thanks For Stopping by

Cross Canada Close to My Heart How to Book

Welcome to our May Blog Hop featuring Jeanette’s How –To Books for scrapbooking. To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Deanne at deannejacobs.blogspot.ca. If you came from Cheryl of  scrappercheryl.blogspot.ca then you are in the right place!

How to Books are my new favourite tool!

There are several ways I use them: sometimes to just get my creative juices flowing, sometimes to create a replica of what is shown, and then sometimes I like to mix this one and that one to make something completely new.

That is what I did for this layout. I used Make it from your Heart Volume 2.  The left side is from page 10 , pattern 3 left page.  The right is from Page 12. Pattern 4 left side but flipped to be on the right

I made the decisions of that pattern I was using based on my photos, then I looked at how to combine the two patterns and where to use which papers.

For the left instead of adding more paper along the far left side like the pattern suggests I added stamping. You could also add washi tape here as well,

On the Right side I changed the layout of the Photos to suit my photos I altered the size and orientation. I tucked in a Picture My Life card to shift the bottom photo more to the right and inline with photo above it.

Do not let the pattern restrict your artwork use it as a jumping off point for your creativity! I could uses these patterns thousands of times each time they would look a little different.

The details

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Chris Robertson 
If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog,  as she has the complete blog list.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when our theme is Mini albums. So mark June 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Taste of Summer

This month's Brae-er Team Blog Hop we are featuring the Taste of  Summer Paper pack and D Size stamp that is available for National Scrapbook Day.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we really love feedback from our blog viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop. See Brae Montgomery for the start of the blog and the full list of Bloggers.  If you have come from  Chris Robertson You are in the right place

Here is my layout are my Layouts.  That is right 3 layouts using the taste of summer paper and I still have paper left over to make at least one more layout it is an amazing value at 8.95 for the pack of 12 papers- 2 of each pattern.

Products I used

Taste of Summer Paper pack

Taste of summer stamp set

Shin Han markers

white shimmer trim

thistle diagonal ribbon

scallop punch

black cardstock

canary cardstock

black epoxy dots
hollyhock, pear green, sunset, black, thistle, canary, and lagoon exclusive inks

Thanks for hopping by!!! 
Your next stop on the Team Braer Hop is  Michelle Stewart Ctmheart. I know she has another great idea great in store for you!